Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader presents the student with
three contemporary approaches for investigating text, practices and
contexts in which language-related problems are implicated. Divided
into three parts, the reader focuses in turn on the different
approaches, showing how each is relevant to addressing real world
problems, including those relating to contemporary educational
practices.
Part One introduces the reader to Systemic Functional
Linguistics (SFL) as an approach particularly well suited to the
description of language and language-related problems in social
contexts.
Part Two examines Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a means
of uncovering the relationships between language use, power and
ideology.
Part Three presents Ethnography (and linguistic ethnography) as
a methodology for observing the use and significance of language in
real-life events as they unfold.
The editors general introduction introduces the student to the
tools of SFL, CDA and ethnography and explains how the three
approaches each offer distinct as well as, in some cases,
complementary perspectives on language in use. Each part is made up
of one classic theoretical reading, one cutting-edge theoretical
reading, and three problem-oriented readings and includes an
introduction, which provides synopses of the individual readings
making the book highly usable on courses.
Applied Linguistics Methods: A Reader is key reading for
advanced level undergraduates and postgraduates on Applied
Linguistics, English Language, and TESOL/TEFL courses.
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